Habit and health : a book of golden hints for middle age : derived from the works of eminent medical men : with especial reference to ailments besetting professional and business men at the present day / edited by Guy Beddoes.

Date:: 1890

Credit: Habit and health : a book of golden hints for middle age : derived from the works of eminent medical men : with especial reference to ailments besetting professional and business men at the present day / edited by Guy Beddoes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$GOLBLN BIN IS as the most honourable avocations. It would be a very unequal distribution of justice were it otherwise ! Dr. James Johnson \_A very distinguished and successful j)ractitioner of the last generation.'] , EEMEDIES MORAL AND PHYSICAL. The nervous system and digestive organs act and re-act upon each other with surprising force and rapidity. The intelligence of a severe loss, or the occurrence of an unex- pected calamity will instantaneously annihilate the appetite, suspend the process of digestion, and allow the contents of the stomach and bowels to run into all kinds of decompo- sition and fermentation. A piece of agreeable information, on the contrary, will recall the inclination for food, and quickly set all the digestive machine again in regular motion. Now it is quite evident, that in proportion as men accumulate in large societies, those events and circumstances which tend, in a thousand different ways, to (disquiet the mind, ruffle the temper and excite the passions, multiply in an increasing$